Macbook Pro DVD drive has died - advice for replacement with SSD

My DVD drive in my late 2008 macbook pro has given up the ghost (in part helped along by my trying to get it working again when it was refusing to accept discs - oops!).

Rather than replace the optical drive, which I probably use about once every three years, I thought I would take the opportunity to add a second hard drive. I currently have a 640gb HDD (aftermarket) which I would use as the second drive, and then get hold of a SSD to use as the Operating System drive.

I've earmarked the following products (on ebay, but available elsewhere also, it would seem):

Could anyone advise whether these are suitable products, and whether there are any potential pitfalls? I am assuming that it would make sense to put the new SSD in the macbook's primary HDD location, as this will be the 'main' drive, and then put my current hard drive in the caddy.

Just finished the same mod to my 2011 MBP. Didn't care much for that HDD caddy. No screws were included to attach the bracket from the optical drive and there are no other attach points. It just kinda lays in the bay. Pretty lame.

I think your late 2008 is unibody? This one has the lower attach points for unibody MBP.

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